ReviewNutrients2022
Effect of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Telomeres-Are They the Elixir of Youth?
Review in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dietary inflammatory index (DII) and telomere length: a systematic review.Biogerontology · 2025Pooled it
- Circulating Docosahexaenoic Acid and Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2024Pooled it
- Repurposing effect of cardiovascular-metabolic drug to increase lifespan: a systematic review of animal studies and current clinical trial progress.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Pooled it
- Vitamin DThe American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Trial
- Tubular Omega-3 Fatty Acid Receptor FFAR4 Deficiency Aggravated Renal Aging and Chronic Kidney Disease.Aging cell · 2026Article
- Fish oil supplements in patients with chronic kidney disease.Clinical kidney journal · 2026Review
- Omega-3 dietary supplementation combined with exercise to keep telomere integrity in the liver of aged obese female mice.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2026Article
- Crosstalk Between Inflammation and Cellular Senescence in Osteoarthritis: Modulatory Actions of Olive Oil and Its Bioactive Compounds.Mediators of inflammation · 2026Review
- Epigenetic and Mitochondrial Metabolic Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis: A Review of Herbal Drug Approaches and Current Clinical Trials.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Role of Nutritional Elements in Skin Homeostasis: A Review.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Telomeres in skin aging.Biogerontology · 2025Review
- Associations of Prenatal Mercury Exposure and PUFA with Telomere Length and mtDNA Copy Number in 7-Year-Old Children in the Seychelles Child Development Nutrition Cohort 2.Environmental health perspectives · 2025Article
- Senescence, NK cells, and cancer: navigating the crossroads of aging and disease.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Targeting telomere dynamics with plant-derived compounds: Molecular strategies against aging.Current research in pharmacology and drug discovery · 2025Review
- The role of circulating polyunsaturated fatty acids in mediating the effect of BMI on leukocyte telomere length: analysis using Mendelian randomization.Nutrition & metabolism · 2024Article
- Review
- Searching for Beauty and Health: Aging in Women, Nutrition, and the Secret in Telomeres.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Unlocking longevity: the role of telomeres and its targeting interventions.Frontiers in aging · 2024Review
- Associations between the New DNA-Methylation-Based Telomere Length Estimator, the Mediterranean Diet and Genetics in a Spanish Population at High Cardiovascular Risk.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Telomeres are complexes consisting of tandem repeat DNA combined with associated proteins that play a key role in protecting the ends of chromosomes and maintaining genome stability. They are considered a biological clock, as they shorten in parallel with aging. Furthermore, short telomeres are associated with several age-related diseases. However, the variability in telomere shortening independent of chronological age suggests that it is a modifiable factor. In fact, it is regulated inter alia by genetic damage, cell division, aging, oxidative stress, and inflammation. A key question remains: how can we prevent accelerated telomere attrition and subsequent premature replicative senescence? A number of studies have explored the possible impact of omega-3 fatty acids on telomere shortening. This review summarizes published cross-sectional studies, randomized controlled trials, and rodent studies investigating the role of omega-3 fatty acids in telomere biology. It also covers a broad overview of the mechanism, currently favored in the field, that explains the impact of omega-3 fatty acids on telomeres-the food compound's ability to modulate oxidative stress and inflammation. Although the results of the studies performed to date are not consistent, the vast majority indicate a beneficial effect of omega-3 fatty acids on telomere length.
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